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Shadowinks - Hippogriff

Created by Shadowinks on 2007-05-01
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A hipogriff is a lovely being. It emnates passion and love, since it is bred by to incredibly different species. Shadowinks was hired by the Sentinel to give allies a boost on the battlefield. Even though his main assignment is to help allies, he has his own fair share of attacking tricks too.

Shining Ray (r)
A Hippogriff is a holy being, thus it can call power from the gods to wipe out it's enemies instantly. Only those who are more inteligent than Shadowinks can negate the effect of this ray, which will deal damage to the enmy's hp based on his/her own mp. CAn only target heroes.
Level 1 - Must have 3 inteligence more than Shadowinks to negate, damage is 10% of the enemy's mp..
Level 2 - Must have 4 more intteligence than Shadwoinks to negate, damage is 20% of the enemies mp.
Level 3 - Must have 5 more intteligence than Shadowinks to negate, damage is 30% of the enemy's mp.
Level 4 - Must have 5 more intteligence than Shadowinks to negate, damage is 40% of the enemy's mp.
IMPORTANT! Will not kill the enemy immedietly, will leave him with a minimum of 10 hp.
Mana Cost: 135/145/155/165
Cooldown: 17

Framework: Launch a brightly colored projectile at the opponent.

Notes: High mp cost and cooldown to make this not IMBA.

Passion (-)
Horses and Gryphons were completely different in many ways- so the idea of them mating was impossible. However, the presence of such a magnificent creature and his being a representation of love and passion convinces them that anything is possible, giving them increased confidence.
Level 1 - 3% chance to immedietly kill a creep, 5% chance to deal 200 bonus damage to an enemy hero.
Level 2 - 5% chance to immedietly kill a creep, 5% chance to deal 250 bonus damage to an enemy hero.
Level 3 - 8% chance to immedietly kill a creep, 5% chance to deal 300 bonus damage to an enemy hero.
Level 4 - 10% chance to immedietly kill a creep, 5% chance to deal 350 bonus damage to an enemy hero.
Aura effect, 400 AOE. Creeps are not able to deal bonus damage to heroes. Effects Shadowinks as well.
Mana Cost:
Cooldown:

Notes: I like this skill, I read up on a book about magical beasts that horses and gryphons are.............well just look at the skill descript.

Confuse (C)
Flashes an array of lights at a target area, which confuses enemy creeps. This makes them attack the nearest unit, be it enemy or ally. Lasts 5 seconds.If shining ray is used while in effect, the time of effect is increased by 2 seconds. The creeps are also effected by passion when confused. The units that they kill gives Shadowinks exp and gold.
Level 1 - 200 AOE.
Level 2 - 300 AOE.
Level 3 - 400 AOE.
Level 4 - 500 AOE.
Channels for first 1 second of effect.
Mana Cost: 75/95/125/145
Cooldown: 8

Framework: Launch several strips of light at a target area : cold arrow,red arrow,yellow arrow, blah blah blah.

Notes: BEst used in late game where there are incredible amount of creeps.

Victory Ray (V)
Victory ensues, your allies are gaining on your enemies. This ray will make sure that no one ever steps into your vicory streak anymore.Gives allies a determination to live through the war, and claim VICTORY! 500 AOE, Lasts for 60 seconds
Level 1 - For every creep that dies, 1 additional creeps spawn. Heroes gain +3 armor.
Level 2 - For every creep that dies, 2 additional creeps spawn. Heroes gain +5 armor.
Level 3 - For every creep that dies, 3 additional creeps spawn. Heroes gain +8 armor.
Aura effect.
Mana Cost: 200/225/250
Cooldown: 75

Framework: A brief chronosphere around the hero should do the trick. This is a status effect.

Notes: I really,Really,REALLY love this skill. It sounds cool to me, Has a good effect, and can make you an incredible lane pusher. I just need to counter one fact: How about towers? It would be unfair to kill them of with one push........

Discussion:

HERO CREATION HISTORY

Well, as everyone would have noticed, I named this hero after myself. I couldn't find a hippogriff icon from warcraft III, so I figured that this would be sufficient.

A hippogriff is part horse, part griffin. It represents impossibility and love. Horses and griffins were adverseries, so the possibility of them breeding was highly impossible. However, if they really breed, then the love is so great it will overcome impossibility.

SKILLS

SHINING RAY

This skill is intended to be a killer for Shadowinks. It can be a nightmare for INT heroes, a blessing for STR heroes (although they are doomed to be hit with low INT anyway). It is quite IMBA, I bet that everyone will complain about the aura effect.

PASSION

Uses the fact of the long story. It's a signature for Shadowinks, I refuse to alter it no matter what. It makes you an excellent supproting hero, since the ability to kill creeps instantly is good. Notice that damage to heroes is BONUS, so if you or your allies have huge damage increment items, it can give you an incredible boost in killing enemy heroes.

CONFUSE

IT'sa sort of stun, but even better- you can make them kill each other, or even rebel against their heroes. The key to this is to block your own creeps from going to meet the enemy ones, or else the enem ycreeps might just proceed to attack your own creeps anyway.

VICTORY RAY

The ultimate pushing skill. Use it in grand battle royales, and watch the effect.Your allied heroes also all become tankers. The very IMBA fact is that towers will suffer....suggest way to solve.

SKILL SYNERGIES

Well obviously you will know this. If you are confused, a bright flash of light will make you even more confused, right? This can actually give you you enough time to make the creeps kill each other, provided they attack the correct targets. When an enemy hero is behind a creep wave, just confuse them and launch shining ray to make that enemy hero dead/weak for the kill........

A high chance to kill plus bonus armor and extra creeps - what more could you ask for? This will make a high creep imbalance - you get additional creeps while your enemiy's creeps die in large amounts.

Make them confused, then make them 1-hit-KO themselves.

ITEM BUILD

NUKER BUILD:

This makes you nearly undefeatable, though the chances of acomplishins such an expensive build is near impossible. It gives you enough INT to make Shining Ray hit without fail against INT heroes, and Mjolnir gives you chain lightning, which is excellent.

SUPPORTER BUILD:

This gives you a supporting edge. Die, then bloodstone. Armor decrease for your enemies and armor increase for your allies. I don't like this skill much, and I don't know if it will be effective, since you don't get to try a hero idea......

HEROES TO WATCH OUT FOR

Zeus - Lord of Olympia Black Arachnia - The Broodmother Powerful early game killers.

Morphling - The Morphling Replicating you gives him your passion ability..........

Raigor Stonehoof - The Earthshaker Tiny - The Stone Giant Darchrow - The Enigma Stunners are really dangerous.

He can take advantage of your low hp to culling blade you.

You really wont have the hp to stand their ultis.

He can hook you away to make you lose your AOE effects.

THE END.

Changelog:

2007-05-02: Well, since everyone said it was IMBA, I fixed everthing there that I could think of. Shining Ray was made one-target hit, passion's creepkill chance is reduced, confusion is nerfed, victory ray's creep revive is decreased.

Comments

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1 By `UnholY` 2007-05-01

the last skill might help the enemies when they have good farming skills.

the 1st skill, is the damage based on current mana or maximum mana? if it's maximum mana, it's imba, if it's current mana, maybe a bit imba still... good idea on that though.

the 2nd skill is a marksmanship aura?! + bonus damage to heroes? nerf it a bit and it'll be great!

the 3rd skill is a good combo if your ally is axe.. will rate after more comments!

2 By DotaLancerBoy 2007-05-01

The second skill is way to imba. Better then drow's ulti because it is an aura, and has bonus dmg. At max it should be like 7% to kill creep.

Ulti as well. Just leave your creeps to run into the tower, even if just 4 of them you will have 24 creeps, and from that (if any one tower can kill that) 144 creeps. Its way to imba. cool this hero down.

3 By bleach00 2007-05-01

crazy dude!

imbalicious

....marksmanship aura?

and bonus creeps?
this could end the game at level 6!

push the lower lane of sentinel that goes directly to the world tree and get as many creeps as you can

and does this work on meat wagons or glaive throwers cause it's way too imba if you ask me.

and does the marksmanship aura work on creeps?

4 By Bard Man 2007-05-01

SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS ON A POGO STICK!!

What the hell were you smokin' when you made this dawg? The only skill that isn't Imba is confuse! Shining Ray would be a near constant INT hero raping skill, regardless of it's limit. The maximum mana limit would completely screw them and the current mana would only not screw them in they here drained of mana, or if they'd gotten thier mana burned!

Passion... A MARKSMANSHIP AURA!!! Are you trying to make the Drow jealous? I think you are. This aura would completely rape creeps before you ever got to the tower, and the bonus damage to hoes would again, rape INT heroes along with AGI heroes.

Now lets talk about your ULT. WHAT THE HELL! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! This is the one of the most imba skills I've ever seen. Anyone who complained about my last two heroes needs to look at this and compare. COMPARE!! Even before i nerfed my heroes, they weren't this imba. I think Bleach just explained how F**ked up this is. 144 CREEPS. GODS MAN! THINK!!

Now I don't mean to be an asshole, but when I see this much of a sloppy hero pass through, I get a bit angry. Sorry about that. Good day. *Bows.*

5 By nthomas5143 2007-05-01

OK this needs some work. Number one...nerf the first skill, (one tip. only ults should work w/ percentages, cuz they then continue to grow in power) make it a set damage or something. Then the second skill is way to imba, reduce the insta kill effect to a max of mabye 5%. The third skill is fine. The fourth skill is a good idea but a few changes...it should be reduce mabye 2 deaths per 1 creep/1for1/ and 1for2. Then make them summoned monsters that last till the end of effect that appear next to you. (kinda like spiderqueen). This way you dont give the opponents free money, and u can get exp from ur summons...Also make it so its only your kills that spawn creatures. and make the spawns about the strength of the early game creeps or less. These are just some ideas, but no matter what changes must be made...will rate after changes are made.

6 By mikorkeza 2007-05-01

This ine is SWEET!!! Nice Hero Idea!!! I Like It!!!

Although 1st and 2nd skill are pretty imba....

BUT IT'S GOOD!!!

Give it an 8/10

7 By `UnholY` 2007-05-01

OMG who rated this hero idea 1/10?! nothing's bad about it it's just a little imba, and i know that he can change it soon so don't just go rating this hero idea what it doesn't deserve.. it's still available for skill nerfing, rate after shadowinks changes/nerfs his hero idea..

8 By Shadowinks 2007-05-01

I feel really hurt you know, i wil nerf this, i swear.

9 By Shadowinks 2007-05-01

I feel really hurt you know, i wil nerf this, i swear.

10 By Paopaomaster 2007-05-02

Cool and Unique hero!
I want to use this hero!
Good creativity!

11 By Shimrra_3 2007-05-02

All skills are incredibly dodgy and imba except the third one. The third one owns the world except the Channeling bit and the 8sec cd. Up the cooldown (by lots, at least to 12-16 or so) and make the Channeling between (and including) 1sec to 0sec. Other skills... instant kill or damage based on half mana: imba. 17% Marksmanship as a passive, non-ult skill is imba, AND 5% for 350 bonus to heroes is imba, AND its BOTH OF THEM, AND its a damned AURA FOR YOUR WHOLE SIDE!!! ... Ult skill I have no ideas. I mean, its non actually a combat skill, it just makes pushing much, much quicker. Make the cooldown and duration more balanced, its 75 for 60... thats only 15 seconds of non-Ult. See shapeshifting heroes for comparison. Looks like a set of good ideas with no clue as to actual balance of the game... which makes no sense because I know I've seen you around DS for a while. So, fix things. I'll rate after more comments.

12 By mikorkeza 2007-05-03

Guys, can I ask you a question. What's "NERF"?

13 By mikorkeza 2007-05-03

And shadowinks, I can help you with the icon of the hippogryph. Searh it on google.com and look for a 64x64 size of that icon. It looks like a bird with a horn right?

14 By `UnholY` 2007-05-03

nerf = weaken

15 By Greedygood 2007-05-03

LOL, just reading the comments to this was funny...

Well, man. Kudos on making a hippogryph guide.

But, man, what's with Shining Ray? I see that he's an INT hero, so he'll be smarter than most heroes, but this will do nothing against tanks. Absolutely nothing. Late game against, say, Raigor with Linkens, it *might* do 3-400 damage, if he has 1000 mana. On the other hand, if you're smarter than Zeus, you'd nearly kill him with one hit. Horray for stupidity!! I no smart!!

Ulti looks good...right when you're at their base, ulti, and omg, flood of creeps! Unfortunately, this may mean flood of exp for the enemy...

16 By Shadowinks 2007-05-03

@every1: Thx for comments.
@greedygood: Excellent comment! LOL
@mikorkeza: Thanks! I owe u 1!

17 By tutu123321 2007-05-03

Preettyyyy good!!!! I love the ideas!!!! just a bit of nerfing and it will be a great hero

18 By Shimrra_3 2007-05-03

Still needs some fixes. Some meaning lots. Still. 5% chance to do 350 bonus damage to a hero is too high. It is STILL a damn aura. Balanced would be 5% to do 100 to heroes (aura) at lvl4. Or 10% to do 100 NOT aura at lvl4. Or SOMETHING. Its too powerful. Not forgetting the Marksmanship as well - IN THE ONE SKILL. And THEN Confuse and Victory Ray still have horrible cooldown/duration problems. Confuse: 1sec channel, 5sec duration, wait 2sec, use again. Victory Ray: 60sec duration, wait 15, use again. No *^*^ing way, honestly. Increase the cooldown ratios appropriately, please. Shining Ray you seem to have fixed. Theres something in here after all. Pleeeease fix this some more, its ridiculous...

19 By `UnholY` 2007-05-03

still haven't rated you. i'll give you 9 or 10/10 if you've earned it, just so you could increase the rating of your hero idea.

20 By bleach00 2007-05-03

i still think that the ulti needs nerfing..like what nthomas said.. make it 2/1 to 1/1 and 1/2.. or maybe 1/1 to 1/2 and 1/3 if you kill the creep.

i think the 3rd skill is good,

passion? hmmmmm.... just give the creeps a chance to do a critical strike dude... way better than instant kill right?

the 1st skill? well it'll rape most of the enemy int heroes. and youd did say that the enemy will have 10 more life left right? then just do normal attack/thunder god's wrath/guinsoo/dagon/anything else that does damage. i think it needs nerfing.

but good enough for me cause the ulti is both an advantage and a disadvantage so :6/10

21 By terenzzz 2007-05-03

almost all the skills are IMBA

22 By elrich 2007-05-04

To strong On passion...

If nerubian Weaver done 2x Pasiion at lvl 1 ( Germinate Attack ) = 400 + base dmg = To strong

23 By kAEm 2007-05-04

What's the range on the first skill? It is definitely imba. It's not uncommon for Int heroes to have 2k+mana at end-game, so you're talking about a 800-900 nuke and a 19s cd is pretty good for that.

Your ult is completely imba. It only has a 15s effective cooldown, therefore your opponents will effectively only have a 15s window to clear ALL your creeps. Also, if it triggers a creepspawn every time a creep dies Furion can easily make 30 creeps in a single Victory Ray if timed properly.

24 By VikiFanatic 2007-05-04

It's amazing how many comments you can get in a short while... The whole idea is nice, but there are still some overpowered parts... Great pusher. :)

25 By Artimon 2007-05-04

lol im sorry, but the first second and ultimate skill are just too much. I don't care if you're a Harry Potter fan, this hero will NEVER EVER fly (no pun intended) in DotA.

26 By Junior 2007-05-04

Sounds fun

27 By furu 2007-05-04

Ulti: way too imba, should CHANGE completely, we should not have any skills that affect neutral things: buildings, creeps............
Passion: if you have luck, 2 heroes at lvl 1 can FB one enemy.....350 damage is not realistic, should make it increase by lvl, i suggest 75/100/125/150, it's way too strong 'cause of AURA, the % should be 3/3/4/5 maybe......
Markmanship Aura: One Traxex with 20% markmanship solely can not compare to a bunch of creep and heroes who has 10% each....Can you make its percent 2/3/4/5 ?????
should nerf more i think.....

28 By Shadowinks 2007-05-04

I will nerf this soon within the next week or so. Please dont rate yet!

29 By Capwn33 2007-05-04

I h8 drew, this kid can't even spell and made a ridiculously imbalanced hero and yet his hero idea gets posted, mine doesn't.. what a faggot.

30 By Capwn33 2007-05-05

I h8 drew, this kid can't even spell and made a ridiculously imbalanced hero and yet his hero idea gets posted, mine doesn't.. what a faggot.

31 By `UnholY` 2007-05-05

@Capwn33
there's only 2 reasons why your hero idea isn't approved

1) you haven't waited long enough
2) it lacks effort, believe me there are more non-approved hero ideas than approved ones.

if you hate drew why bother go at DS?

32 By Joxie 2007-05-05

Good one, his skills can be used from time to time, his ulti very good for pushing at early game.

Question:
1. How long the passion and ulti still on effect after go out from the AOE?

2. The cooldown time, it's start cooling down start when the magic expires right? [if it's start cooling down when the skill casted, I think it should be nerfed]

3. Where do the creep[s] will spawn?
if it/they spawn on the base [it'll just become food cause it's has ho friend[s] around]
if it's spawn where the creep dies, yes it's imba.
-suggestion, appear with the next wave of creep.

4. What type of the creep will spawn when one dies [same with the one which dies, or always [a] type]?

5. What happen if axe use berserker call then he use Confuse to the unit that get cought at berserker call?

33 By Black Angel 2007-05-06

1st skill:You mean that the target will take damage equal to your MP?What if you have 2200 MP late game?
2nd skill:Remove tha instant crep kill buff and add something else..It's too IMBA!Think about Traxex ulti.
3rd skill:IMBA.It could screw up a whole creep wave.
ULTI:What if there's a Juggernaut and slays all of your creeps?It would be like 3 ally creep waves will spawn?Dude plzz..
Overall:This hero needs a remake.

34 By Black Angel 2007-05-06

35 By Black Angel 2007-05-06

Lol sorry about double post..

36 By Shadowinks 2007-05-06

@Joxie: Thats A LOT of questions..........
1. I actually dont know what you mean on this one........
2. Yes, starts cooling when magic expires.
3. The creeps spawn where its 'predecessor' died.
4. Same type.
5. Well..I dont know.......

37 By Black Angel 2007-05-07

Uhh..ya talkin 2 me or Joxie?
Anyways..you are thinking of a skill that starts cooldown when it expires?
Thers NO skill at DotA that cools down that way and that shouldnt change..
as 5. for Joxie:I think they would give a an explanation to the skill like "Units affected by berserkers call are unaffected by this skill"or somethin like that..

38 By got milk? 2007-05-07

Kool hero... one thing, he's waaaay too imba he can push one whole lane before he's lvl 8... think about it.

39 By got milk? 2007-05-07

Sorry for double post but, other than the imbaness he's a great hero and i'd like to play him sometime if he wasent too imba.

40 By KevinDesano5 2007-05-12

nice hero though... but the IMBAness but i think my Vincent Valentine hero idea is more IMBA than this one.. i think XD

41 By geofkools07 2007-05-19

it has cool abilities but the confuse and the ulti effect i think cannot be done in the true dota game..

42 By Joxie 2007-05-21

Ok, for the first Question...
Example : Briliance aura will expire after 2 seconds if a unit go out from the Briliance Aura AOE.

as for third answer...
uhmm...
dunno what to say :LOL:
but if that so... it's kinda imba you know... like you say, crazy push.
Like if you think like this...
A wave of creep go to enemy fountain, and you cast this skill, after the time expires, use refresher orb and cast again. that gonna over creep you know :D.
What about make it a skill? not aura.
or a creep that being resurected can't be resurected again.
--just trying to make it more balance

One more question:
Does neutral creep that being dominate get the effect too? if yes,
What if a dominate creep being killed?
Does the owner has two dominate creep, or it became 2 neutral creep?
[ this is one question right :p ]

Yes... it does a lot... but questions make your hero better right? :p
thank you for the answers

@Black Angel
1. No Shadowinks mana, but target unit's own mana.
2. Well, at least it has lower chance than drows ulti, but it will shadowinks to decide.
3. I think that gonna kinda funny
4. That's just gonna make the "other" side got more money right?

43 By ncc1701 2007-05-24

ulti bahhaaa pushing towers like flys but cool for me

44 By got milk? 2007-05-31

Another thing, say its lategame and no one goes into a lane for lets say 5 minutes. Later on there will be a blotch full of creeps and you can use you're ulti and kill them all, making it into their base and winning... Otherwise, i like the hero man. Very very creative and cool. I can tell you keep up with you're reading... you know so much about this.

45 By noobforever 2007-06-06

the 2nd skill's %10 killing aura is too good.drow rangers ulti is a crap when compared to this and this is a aura so everyone will gain a ulti

46 By LeoMighter 2007-06-26

hehe idea of a hippogrif is pretty clever just make him a bit less hes aura especially

47 By xPwnis 2007-08-27

I want someone to make this hero so I can push a lane and have an army of creeps.

48 By r4p3d 2007-10-24

i dont want to sound inpolite... but this hero is totally retarded... the mana leak ability is an insane hero killer... imagine obsidian destroyer... 1k dmg? lawl! (long cd and high mana costs, 17 sec/160mp isnt that high...)... the creep kill aura is imba too... a normal skill to pwn drows ulti fo sho

and the creep skill is game finishing... if you have a group of 10-15 creeps and go on their base... they must kill em... have phun with 50 creeps D:

just lawl

49 By chukdy 2007-10-27

Hey, nice hero! Confuse is really cool! Shining ray really is imba.
Anyways, great hero idea!

50 By AXCELACCEL 2007-11-21

nice hero idea

51 By Cloudzstrife 2007-12-06

Your last skill is very confusing.

52 By spoiltboi 2008-04-24

Wow, the ulti is *ahem* kinda imba, and 1 question, does denying the creeps affects the ulti, coz if it does, this hero will bcome an ultimate pusher.

try reducing ur ulti lasting time too, mayb make it like 10~20sec. anyway Gd Job, i kind of like the idea...

53 By GoneForeva 2008-05-10

lol Nice... hmm yeah nice ulti is good.

54 By jingwen68 2008-05-29

imagine... send abt 6 creeps to fountain and activate ulti. isnt that a bit too imba